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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Chasing the Aurora Borealis

    28 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  2. From Disco to Techno, He’s Seen It on Sugar Hill’s Dance Floor

    28 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  3. Is Google OAuth Down?

    28 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  4. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

    28 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  5. Body as a Map

    28 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  6. If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Devices into the Sea

    28 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  7. Ask HN: What are some repetitive tasks you do at work?

    28 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  8. Let’s Talk About Capacitor Failure

    28 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  9. The Crystal Goblet (1955)

    28 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  10. An Introduction to Category Theory For Software Engineers [pdf]

    28 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  11. Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures Implemented in JavaScript

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  12. In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k

    28 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  13. How the U.S. Surrendered to China on Scientific Research

    28 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  14. Portal Cloud Announces Subspace, an OpenSaaS WireGuard VPN Server GUI

    28 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  15. HOList: An Environment for Machine Learning of Higher-Order Theorem Proving

    28 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  16. The Most Modern of Modern Sports

    28 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  17. Mozilla IRC Sunset and the Rust Channel

    28 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  18. Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays

    28 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  19. Google Open Source Tool for Securing C and C++ Software Libraries, Sandboxed API

    28 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  20. A school girl became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times

    27 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  21. The Logic of Political Survival (2002) [pdf]

    27 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  22. RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014)

    27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  23. Penguin Random House Creates Reader Loyalty Program

    27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  24. After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for Its Profits

    27 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  25. Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps

    27 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  26. Ethiopian Airlines Pilots Followed Boeing’s Safety Procedures Before Crash

    27 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  27. Historian uses lasers to unlock mysteries of Gothic cathedrals

    27 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  28. Facebook Bans Far-Right Groups and Prominent Hate Figures

    27 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  29. Cats know their names – whether they care is another matter

    27 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  30. Disney heir calls on company to give 50% of exec bonus to lowest-paid employees

    27 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  31. How Does Turbulence Get Started? (2014)

    27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  32. Where are my tax dollars going?

    27 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  33. 5g Detrimental to Insects

    27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  34. Ask HN: What are your tips to reduce drinking alcohol?

    27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  35. Is It Possible to Beat Doom Without Firing a Single Shot? (2018) [video]

    27 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  36. The nutrition study the $30B supplement industry doesn’t want you to see

    27 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  37. Another Facebook fiasco–over 540m user records reportedly exposed on public DB

    27 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  38. China’s clampdown on religious freedom

    27 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  39. Political radicals don’t evaluate their own errors–about anything (2018)

    27 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  40. ‘Longevity gene’ responsible for more efficient DNA repair

    27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  41. A Message-Passing Interpretation of Adjoint Logic [pdf]

    27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  42. Estonian Startup Has Become a Thorn in Uber’s Side

    27 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  43. Service for Some, Slavery for Others

    27 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  44. Snowden: Assange’s Arrest and Mueller Report Show ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice'

    27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  45. In a Kenyan Slum, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections

    27 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  46. Octopus farming will soon be the norm. Marine scientists say this isn’t good

    27 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  47. Microsoft announces will shut down eBook program, confiscate customer libraries

    27 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  48. France Demand Removal of 15M Project Gutenberg Books from Internet Archive

    27 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  49. Mailgun: Announcing Strategic Growth Investment from Thoma Bravo

    27 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  50. What the media universe currently looks like

    27 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  51. The infamous “AI gaydar” study was repeated – couln't be reproduced

    27 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  52. Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020

    27 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  53. Plectics - The study of simplicity and complexity (1996)

    26 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  54. New Mexico Is Latest State to Join National Popular Vote Compact

    26 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  55. Building My Perfect Router

    26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  56. Harvard’s freshman class is more than one-third legacy - why that’s a problem

    26 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  57. What's it like to try to trim a 737 MAX during high speed (Video)

    26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  58. Show HN: Training Data for Robot Dogs

    26 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  59. What is the minimal basis for Futhark?

    26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  60. Progression of the Inevitable (2009)

    26 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  61. Google blacklists 52 year old magazine

    26 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  62. WhatsApp bans Podemos channel days before Spanish general election

    26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  63. The company that owns the New Yorker is bleeding money

    26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  64. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats

    26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  65. Optimizing Inefficiency: the quest for the worst sorting algorithm

    26 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  66. People are falling in love with a simple productivity system using pen and paper

    26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  67. How China is replacing America as Asia’s military titan

    26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  68. As cashless stores grow, so does the backlash

    26 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  69. In-Memory Performance for Big Data (2014) [pdf]

    26 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  70. Simple Bash syntax error in Steam for Linux executed “rm -rf /*” (2015)

    26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  71. Behind the Scenes on Retrofitting Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's Random Seeding

    26 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  72. The Redacted Mueller Report

    26 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  73. Financier Who Amassed Insurance Firms Diverted $2B into His Private Empire

    26 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  74. Why Ford and Other American Cars Don’t Sell in Japan [video]

    26 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  75. Event Horizon Telescope Live Press Conference

    26 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  76. Show HN: Lexiconomy – Decentralized and Economized Dictionary

    26 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  77. Chinese Rocket company successfully demonstrates 'landing' of rocket

    26 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  78. If Open Source Isn't Sustainable, Maybe Software Freedom Is?

    26 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  79. Gentleman Officer

    26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  80. 11.3M pageviews without the growth hacking bullshit

    26 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  81. Affordable Housing Crisis Spreads Throughout World

    26 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  82. A Random Walk Down Sand Hill Road

    26 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  83. Bitcoin couple face death penalty for 'seastead' in international waters

    26 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  84. Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15 (1956)

    26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  85. Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global Limits on Big Tech

    26 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  86. Ask HN: Would you leave your company for a raise of 20%?

    26 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  87. The soul of a new machine (2018)

    26 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  88. Ethercombing: Finding Secrets in Popular Places

    26 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  89. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally

    26 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  90. OpenBSD 6.5 Released

    26 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  91. Show HN: A simple self-hosted ngrok alternative

    26 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  92. San Francisco passes New York to become world’s costliest place to build

    25 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  93. Ask HN: How does your team run the kanban backlog/board?

    25 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  94. The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum

    25 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  95. Facebook F8 2019: What to Expect After Facebook's Bad Year

    25 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  96. Einstein's E=mc^2 is only for stationary masses

    25 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  97. Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron

    25 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  98. How Rippling Raised a $45M Series A – Without a Pitch Deck

    25 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  99. What Happens When You Smoke Marijuana, According to the Washington Post in 1905

    25 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  100. Google accused of sabotaging Firefox, again

    25 points • comment • apr 18, 2019